Homicide Watch Chicago

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago When DeAndre Holiday’s family and friends talk about who he was, they all say one thing: He loved football. As a kid, his father Renee Canady recalled, Holiday would pretend to put football pads on his shoulders and say, “Dad, I’m gonna play, I’m gonna play!” When he reached … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire The first homicide of 2016 in Chicago happened in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood about 2:20 a.m. on New Years Day, claiming the life of a 24-year-old man, one of at least five people to die in gun violence last week. In that first reported homicide of the year, Deandre … Read more →

By DANIEL BROWN Chicago Sun-Times Wire In the first reported homicide of 2016, DeAndre Holiday was shot to death early New Year’s Day in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the South Side. Holiday, 24, got into a fight with someone in the 4600 block of South St. Lawrence and that person pulled out a gun … Read more →